TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 57, 9 February 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNJTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, Fel». 6. There was a very welcome change today m the weather, which was splendid. The crops to the southward are good, though very late, and warm weather is much needed Dr Mdunsoll, ex-health officer, has sent m a report to the City Council,; stating that the Silverstream Reservoir is unquestionably polluted by the nearness of the slaughter-yards, piggeries, &c, from which seagulls convey offal to the reservoir. He says that with a few week's warm -weather an epidemic would bo almost certain. „ , : .-.. / ■ <■■;■■<■•: Greymo.uth, I?et> f 6; The MftiTsterial party are now at . Boatmans. f They will be here, on. Monday morning, and remain over till Tuesday.' 'On Wednesday they , leave for Hold Una. : :iisUik. (JisßOfiN^,; : i*eb. 6. A Chamber, of ' Commerce has been established ifcrr. ' . ( The Turf Club has decided' to hold a one day's meeting: at East«r. ; AnoKLAND, Feb. 6.. Harry Martin, son of Albin Martin, who went out shooting yesterday, was found dead iii a swuuip^o-day. The trigg.r of the gun, apparently, had caught m a wire fence. The body of the boy Sinclair, drowned at the Sunday school water excursion on the day of the regatta, was found at Uangitoto Keef . < \ \ \ > The body of Aleck. Murphy,*steef oar of the Wairpa whaleboat crew, drowned on*27th tr.iiiuafy, haSbien 'recovered.: . Sir Goorgo Grey has beeu invited; to preside at Mr Booth's farewell meetings on Monday next. ! Major To Wheoro is urgjngithe Kingites not to seek redress at the hands of . the Colonial Government. The Home Government, he said,, would do this, it after six tnpuths' grace the Coloulal Goyerumeut refused to do it« duty m the that'ter. Mr Gorst would he sent out as Royal Commissioner, and the : whole' mauageineut of native affairs placed m his hands. ; / . .-. .; ; ; , . ,: At the half-yearly meeting of. the Bay of ilslauds Coal; Compaiiy, iho report showed tii at 15,486 tons coal wero raised during the half-year, beiu^ au increase of 2920 tons on the previous half-year ; but the hardness of the coal and the cost of raising it absorbed the total ieceipts and .£2OB of the balance, leaving £5 to bo carried forward. A resolution was carried asking the directors tc) 'make represeutatious to induce Government to absolutely remit the royalty. ' Mr Ballance met Tawlnao at Whatiwhatihoe to-dayi 500 natives were present. Tawhiao agreed to the railway, on condition that he was allowed the management of native affairs generally m the King Country. Mr Ballance said there could only be one Government m v New Zfeajlahdij Before" leaving, he invited Tawhiao and Major Te Wheoro to to'Welliiigtoii next session to talk over matters concerning the native race. Ch KiSTCHimcii, Feb. 6. r An instance of extraordinary precocity m crime came before Mr Whitefoord, R.M., this morning. > A boy 10 years of age, named George Hawkius, was convicted of breaking into a house at Prebblelon while the opcupauts were away harvesting. He carried off a cheque for £6 4s 9d, £1 10s m cash, a silver watch, .- and other articles. Ho was sent to the Durnham Industrial School.